For Thing #16, we’re supposed to learn about wikis and explore some.<\/p>\n
My 13-year-old son, a few years ago, was the one who introduced me to wikipedia.\u00c2\u00a0 He loves to have his browser access a random article and read it.\u00c2\u00a0 He’ll look at wikipedia to research something specific, and then get snagged into reading about something else.\u00c2\u00a0 Since that was a reason people would give for having an encyclopedia set in the home, it seems like a good thing!<\/p>\n
Although I do remind him to take Wikipedia information with a grain of salt, I’ve been reminded that the venerable Oxford English Dictionary started life as a wiki.\u00c2\u00a0 But compiling the little slips of paper that people used to present definitions of words was a much more tedious process than today’s internet!<\/p>\n
We used PBwiki in my Resources for Youth class in order to create a group website.\u00c2\u00a0 It was much simpler than what the other groups were using.<\/p>\n
Wikis are perfect when you want to have lots of people contributing to a website, and a wonderful way to do a group project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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